POLITICAL TRUCE IN SOUTH AFRICA
OPPOSITION PARTIES ACCEPT OLIVE BRANCH CAPE TOWN, November 30. The laying of the foundation stone of the Voortrekker centenary memorial on Digaan’s Day, December 16, will be responsible for a month’s political truce, beginning at midnight. This proposal was made by the Prime Minister (General J. B. M. Hertzog). Dr R. J. Malan, leader of the Nationalist Republicans, and Colonel Stallard, leader of the Extreme English Speakers, accepted the olive branch.
Dingaan was a Zulu chief who wiped out one of the Boer laagers at Weenen in 1833, but after some confused fighting in which the English from Port Natal helped the Boers, the Boer leader Pretorius, with reinforcements from the Free State, crushed Dingaan at the Blood river in December. This victory is still celebrated throughout South Africa as Dingaan’s Day.
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Southland Times, Issue 23681, 2 December 1938, Page 7
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